Typhoon Lagoon (day 15)

No need to get up early today, we were going to the other Disney Waterpark: Typhoon Lagoon, and they don’t open till 10 AM.

To be fair, we were so slow, we didn’t arrive until 10:30, which made it difficult to find proper places to lie down… but we had Noodles luck on our side.

The weather has been getting hotter, and we pasty Dutch have been suffering. I don’t exactly tan… I think my freckles just make my face darker. I hate my freckles. Okay… I do tan, but I tan very very VERY slow. So while Elora is starting to get that nice caramel color, I’m now in the phase where you can sort of see me when I stand in front of a white wall *ugh*

After almost drowning several times in the wave pool (I kept trying to rush to the deep end, where the waves were higher, but they didn’t crash down on us yet) and being too damn late. I tell you… I am not an elegant woman. Several times I was dragged off my feet, and I would wash up on shore like a demented starfish. Much to the amusement of my husband and onlookers.

Unfortunately for Elora… she seems to have my genes in this respect.

In the deep end we were fine. It was actually really nice. We swam around and were occasionally bobbing up and down on the high waves.

For lunch the three of us shared a hotdog, which was great. Then we decided to dry off and get a tan. I think my brain got a little fried lying in the full sun. I didn’t get burned, because I had enough suntan lotion on to smother a small country, but that didn’t protect me from the heat.

To cool off we went into the lazy river, where we bobbed around with ten million other guests. It wasn’t that relaxed, and reminded me of very slow bumper cars. I still enjoyed it, though I have to admit, I’m a little fed up with the crowds by now. It’s much worse than previous years, and I really miss going in early December times where the weather and crowds are a bit more tolerable. At the same time, this has charm too.

Daan had been looking forward to going to this park all vacation, because we got to swim with the sharks. Only Elora decided to have a drama llama panic attack about swimming with sharks (don’t even ask, it’s not like this was her first time) and she kind of ruined it for Daan. Also, I think they clean the goggles with some sort of acid, because I was half expecting my face to fall off. It was really painful. On the plus side, I think I might have ended up with inspiration for a new horror story.

We decided to go in the big wave pool again, and around 2 pm, it was time for us to go home and get out of the sun. I was pretty frazzled. The hotel room was lovely and cool.

Since I ordered a board game while I was here (my mother’s day prezzie) we ended up playing games all night. It’s a game called ‘Escape, Curse of the Temple’ and it’s a real time game. We were worried it would be too stressful for Elora, but we were wrong, she loved it. We had such a blast. We found a table outside and played several games until bed time. It was frantic!

This was the first day we had no dinner plans, because 2 of the dinners took up 2 points, so we ended up eating at the hotel. We shared 2 meals with the three of us, and most of my meal stayed untouched. I still can’t get over the portion sizes here. My ice-cream sandwich was the size of Elora’s head!!! It was ridiculous, lol.

Once back in the room I decided to check my facebook. Been getting so many messages, I thought it was time to see if everything was okay back in reality. It was nice to talk to people again, but I forgot how time consuming it could be. Oh well, at least it gave Daan some time to read. I haven’t gotten much reading done this vacation. Sharing a kindle isn’t helping.

Tomorrow we go to Epcot for the last time. I’m struggling with mixed emotions. On the one hand I’m sad to say goodbye to this wonderful place. At the same time I’m looking forward to going home too. I can’t wait to have my own bedroom again. Elora’s been great, but I need some privacy.